Xie Xiang

Liu Zao turned her back to the candlestick, her face was hidden in the darkness, Xie Yi couldn't see her expression clearly when she said this, but could feel her uneasiness from her words.

"Are you scared?" Xie Yi asked.

Liu Zao let out a soft "huh", exhaled, and looked a little depressed: "I still miss you and I can live a normal life, you and I can spend more time together."

Xie Yi also has her thoughts, but she can say it as a worry, but Xie Yi can't.But as soon as she said that she had such a pitiful appearance worrying about gains and losses, Xie Yi didn't feel annoyed. Instead, she was a little funny and thought Mengmeng was cute, and said, "If that's the case, why do you insist on making me your queen?"

If you don't stand up, you can save a lot of tossing, and naturally you don't have to be so tired.They can see each other every three or two days. When the government is busy, they can see it every day, and they can also stay quietly in the palace for a night like now. With the emperor's control over the palace and her prudence in doing things, occasionally, Not to be noticed.

As soon as she asked, Liu Zao immediately became nervous, her voice trembling: "Do you regret it? You don't want to be my queen anymore?"

Xie Yi patted the back of her hand lightly and said, "Don't worry."

Liu Zao knew that she was too nervous, and when she felt relieved, she muttered unhappily: "That's just muddling along." It's true that life would be much easier if you didn't strive to become queen, but that's not how a decent person lives.She and Xie Xiangqing were together innocently, and they were not fornicating, so how could they hide it.

After she finished speaking, her mind cleared up, and she no longer worried about anything. She told Xie Yi to sleep quickly, and went to the side hall by herself.

Xie Yi watched her leave, thinking that she would be worried because of her saying "too smooth", and couldn't sleep, so Fang Yi closed his eyes, so he fell asleep, feeling very peaceful.

When I woke up again, it was almost Maoshi.Liu Zao came back at some point, lying beside her, sound asleep.

There was a knock on the door outside the hall, and Hu Ao called out, "Your Majesty, it's time to get up."

Today coincides with the great dynasty, the emperor should get up and dress up, and go to the front hall to pay his respects.Liu Zao didn't sleep all night, lay down for less than half an hour, very sleepy, Hu Ao called several times, but didn't wake her up at all.Xie Yi pushed her and said, "Mengmeng, wake up."

Liu Zao rubbed his eyes and turned over.

Xie Yi sat up, pushed her again, and said, "It's up."

Liu Zao was about to die of sleepiness, so she forced herself to sit up, looked out the window, it was still pitch black, her eyes were sleepy, and she flattered her, "Let me sleep a little longer, I won't go to court today."

Xie Yi straightened the neckline of her pajamas, and said, "No."

Liu Zao had no choice but to get up obediently.She was so sleepy that she couldn't even stand upright, and after splashing clean water on her face, she regained her energy.

Xie Yi and her parted ways outside the bedroom, Liu Zao watched her walk away, knowing that she was going to take a detour to the palace road near the palace gate, pretending to be entering the palace, all drowsiness disappeared.

When will she be able to be with Xie Xiang openly and aboveboard, without such a circuitous cover-up.

Seeing the emperor standing still, Hu Ao stepped forward to remind him: "Your Majesty, it's time to leave."

Liu Zao came back to his senses, boarded the palace chariot, his thoughts were still on Xie Yi's back just now when he left alone.Waiting until the court, seeing Xie Yi again, she has already stood at the head of the officials, except for the black eyes revealing the tiredness, she has no ordinary intentions.

Xie Xiang is very tired.Liu Zao thought in his heart.

This tiredness is all due to her.Liu Zao thought again.

I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, distressed, regretful, and self-incompetent.He felt sorry for Xie Yi's willingness to suffer for her, regretted that he should have been so careless last night, and even hated himself for being helpless, not letting Xiang Xie stand beside her in an open and honest manner immediately.

Young people always have a heroic spirit to shield their loved ones from wind and rain, and they always think that they can become a towering tree, solid and tall, so that even if the sky falls, it can easily stand up.Especially that person is much older than her, and he is more appropriate and seasoned than her in everything.

Liu Zao felt uncomfortable, but gradually learned to be patient, and stopped asking Xie Yi to tell her, so that she would not have to concentrate on comforting her when she was exhausted.

When the first batch of talented people came to Beijing, Liu Zao specially arranged for them to live with them.Since this group of people was able to enter the capital first, it can be seen that their place of origin is relatively close to the capital, so they are also a little informed about the news of the court, and their actions seem to be appropriate, and their etiquette and speech are all very good.

Liu Zao couldn't help placing high hopes, and specially invited these talents to a banquet. After the banquet, the high hopes turned into disappointment.This group of people generally looks like a bunch of flowers, and they are picked out individually, but none of them can be of great use, and all of them are mediocre.

When she was alone with Xie Yi, her thoughts showed a little bit, Xie Yi had to persuade her not to worry.

"The Great Han Dynasty has a system of selecting talents. Every state and county pays tribute to the court every year. Your Majesty's call for talents this time is an additional selection. What you get is the fish that slipped through the net other than the state and county. It’s also uneven.”

Liu Zao also understood this truth, so he was not in a hurry, and stopped seeing them, and made a discussion after all the people who were waiting to be elected into Chang'an arrived.

Everyone was selected for their talents and came to Chang'an.When Liu Zao summoned them, he naturally didn't ask about good policies for governing the country, or ordered them to write poems, or ordered those who were good at tricks and musicians to perform music for fun, or even just asked them to talk and laugh with amazing words.

In this way, it really seems that after the world has been brought to peace, one starts to have fun.The ministers are naturally disappointed, and they feel at ease when they are disappointed, as long as His Majesty does not cause any trouble, and enjoys himself in the forbidden area, it is fine.

Among all the talented people, there are those who are unwilling to vote for the emperor with a good plan.

These people include men who have passed their age, and some old men in their 50s and [-]s with frosty temples. The former are conceited and talented, and they want to do something when they come to Chang'an, while the latter are more stable, wait and see, and refuse to make their debut easily.

In ten days, Liu Zao obtained more than [-] volumes of bamboo slips, all of which were strategies for governing the country and maintaining the state. She read them one by one, smiling while reading, and then threw all the bamboo slips into the charcoal basin to use as firewood.

The first batch of them, although courageous, are all impetuous, and the strategies they offer are only on paper and useless, so they are not the ones she wants to wait for.

The people waited for several days, but they didn't get a response, so they knew that the good plan hadn't caught the eyes of the king, and they scared away a group of people.

In the next two months, Liu Zao got a group of people one after another. These people were like the first ones, who wrote proposals and presented them, and when the emperor summoned them to chat and laugh, they took the opportunity to embed their ambitions in the jokes, and some pretended to meet by chance and spit out surprises. The language of the world must attract the king's attention.

Liu Zao memorized a few names secretly, but she was not in a hurry, and continued to investigate, and she found one person.

There are more than [-] people who entered Beijing this time, more than [-] people, and less than ten women.What she found was one of the less than ten people.

In this world, although women can be officials and inherit the family business, there are not many who can really stand out.As far as Liu Zao knew, the poorer the family, the lower the women's status, and the wealthier families were more willing to spend their spare money on their sons, who were going to marry off after all.Only wealthy merchants and feudal lords with thousands of miles of land would pay attention to their daughters.

Therefore, among the women selected to enter the capital this time, two were relatives of the Liu family, five were born in the county, and only one was dressed in shabby clothes.

What she found was this poor man.This man's surname is Han, his name is Ping, he is about thirty years old, and he has never spoken a word to the emperor since he came to Beijing.

To work hard in poverty, but to see the king but not speak, this person must have great ambitions.

Liu Zao told Xie Yi the name of this person.

Xie Yi was naturally curious about the person she praised so much.

This day Liu Zao wanted to play Cuju in the palace for fun, and because so many talented people came, she asked them to choose someone who was good at Cuju, and then selected a team from the palace guards, and asked the two teams to compare each other, and the winner would be the winner. There are generous gifts.

She assigned this matter a month ago. The Han family loves cuju, and there are not a few men and women who can play cuju. After hearing the emperor's decree, no matter whether they are talented or palace guards, they are all eager to try.

Such a selection practice, the momentum is huge, after one month, everyone in Beijing knows that there are also good Cuju players among the public officials, who come to watch the game, and a wide Juju field is full.

Liu Zao came here with Xie Yi, the two of them rode in the same car, talking and laughing happily, it seemed that the monarch and his subjects were in harmony, there was no gap between them.

After getting out of the car, Liu Zao got off first, followed by Xie Yi.Li Lin stood in the crowd, saw the emperor standing still, turned her lower body, turned towards Prime Minister Xie, raised her sleeves, turned around again, and waited for Prime Minister Xie to come to her side, before saying goodbye to the saluting people.

Others didn't know, but Li Lin could tell, His Majesty turned around, he must have wanted to help the Prime Minister get out of the car, but just raised his sleeves, but remembered that he was in front of others, so he restrained himself.It can be seen from this that when they get along in private, His Majesty must be extremely considerate to the prime minister.